4 Replies to “Chicago teachers take a step forward. Rahm does a dance.”

We will have to see how this all works out at the school level. The time schedule, the number of preps per day, the lack of made-up preps during testing (always testing, you know), time in the building, this may not be the huge victory the CTU is claiming. Or it may be. The devil’s in the details, as they say. If there is a way around it, CPS and many of its principals will find it.

I have not seen where the CTU is claiming a huge victory.
Quite the contrary, they have said quite clearly that there is much more that must be bargained, including the issues you raise.
What the signed agreement addresses is just the length of the teacher work day and the rehiring of 500 teachers. That’s a lot, but not everything.
In fact, it is the proposal that the CTU made months ago.

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